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Report to Congress Details Copyright Violations on Google Video

The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) has submitted a report to Congress detailing their findings of copyright violations on Google Video. This follows a report over the summer where the organization published a list of 50 full length videos that could be accessed on the site. Meanwhile, in recent research conducted from September 10-18, the organization claims to have found an additional 300 copyright videos that are readily available on the site.

According to the NLPC, recent releases such as Oceans Thirteen, The Bourne Ultimatum, and Knocked Up can all currently be found on the site. In the letter, the NLPC wrote:

“While Google faces numerous legal challenges related to the posting of copyrighted content on its video sharing websites, there is also a growing chorus who believe that evidence of Google’s seemingly indifferent attitude towards Internet video piracy has resulted in a legitimization or ‘mainstreaming’ of video piracy which will have broad and damaging implications for all intellectual property owners,”

Apparently, the NLPC is frustrated by Google moving too slowly to implement filtering technology, which the group claims Google has been promising since fall of 2006.

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